Black Lives Matter is being Columbused

White saviorhood for fun and for profit.

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This is going to be a left-field analogy, but follow me on this one. The ancient Roman military was a well-oiled machine of effective warfare. There were two types of forces: the legionnaires and the auxiliary.

To be a legionnaire, you had to be a Roman citizen. Non-Romans could serve in the military but…